Over nine hundred fifty million people connect to Facebook daily (Company Info | Facebook Newsroom) to interact with long lost friends, meet new people from near and far, and keep up with friends and family. The constant access of social media allows so many people to stay up to date and in contact with friends, family, and acquaintances all at one time, but with so many people using Facebook and other sites on such a regular basis it comes as no surprise that social media has become such a prominent part of society, and that people 's relationships are affected by the constant use of social media in day to day life. Even though social media is able to connect people all over the world, it is pulling people away from those around them by causing
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People tend to believe that social media is helping them to build friendships with a great deal of people at a single time but in actuality, “someone with 200 friends has less time for building close and durable relationships.”, (Strom and Strom). Many people spend so much time maintaining friendships with hundreds of people they barely know rather spending time maintaining friendships with those that they have already met and have built relationships with already. People spend so much time on their Twitters, Facebooks, and instagrams building relationships with people they hardly know by liking and commenting on the different photos and status updates that they post but, “constantly checking in with our virtual worlds...leaves little time for our real world relationships”, (Tarshis). People are constantly checking in with their friends from across the world while concurrently allowing themselves to be pulled away from their real world relationships, this shows how social media can help connect people with hundreds of people at the click of a button, but it can also take those people away from the people right in front of them. Not only does social media pull people away from their relationships by taking up our time it also takes people away by introducing people that are perceived as better friends than …show more content…
These factors have begun to have detrimental affects on people’s relationships with friends, family, and many others and allow them to be more involved with their online worlds rather than their offscreen life and friends. It is believed by many that social media and new technology are the worst thing to have happened to this generation and while social media and new technology must be used sparingly it is not the awful concept that society believes it to
People tend to believe that social media is helping them to build friendships with a great deal of people at a single time but in actuality, “someone with 200 friends has less time for building close and durable relationships.”, (Strom and Strom). Many people spend so much time maintaining friendships with hundreds of people they barely know rather spending time maintaining friendships with those that they have already met and have built relationships with already. People spend so much time on their Twitters, Facebooks, and instagrams building relationships with people they hardly know by liking and commenting on the different photos and status updates that they post but, “constantly checking in with our virtual worlds...leaves little time for our real world relationships”, (Tarshis). People are constantly checking in with their friends from across the world while concurrently allowing themselves to be pulled away from their real world relationships, this shows how social media can help connect people with hundreds of people at the click of a button, but it can also take those people away from the people right in front of them. Not only does social media pull people away from their relationships by taking up our time it also takes people away by introducing people that are perceived as better friends than …show more content…
These factors have begun to have detrimental affects on people’s relationships with friends, family, and many others and allow them to be more involved with their online worlds rather than their offscreen life and friends. It is believed by many that social media and new technology are the worst thing to have happened to this generation and while social media and new technology must be used sparingly it is not the awful concept that society believes it to